Wear and tear

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'wear'. I've actually had a few pieces accepted this week but I decided not to waste a good whinge. 🙂 All these rejections are starting to wear me down (if they were the old paper rejection slips I’d have enough to …

A juicy scandal

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'juice'. When the Feds descended on the Give-Me-The-Juice Bar, customers scrambled for the exits and the owners tried to destroy the evidence down the sinks and toilet bowls, but to no avail; the jigger was up. Damning evidence presented to the …

Ambiguation of express – Wackypedia

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'express'. Express(v) exude through the pores, as in emotion, words, milk, sweat, BO, unctuousness, and conspiracy theories(adj) commonly used to describe the speed of bullet trains but in fact not as fast as Superman Espresso(n) Actual coffee (not Starbuck’s 364 variations …

F’ing Freddie

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'charm'. Freddie Stare was a fabulous finesser of foot-tapping fantasia, with his fascinating rhythms filling the gravity-free firmament after he found Fionnuala Fagan, the famed fox-trotter from Fenagh. However, in recent times, he’d decided he could fare well without fair Fionnuala …

Fair dealing

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'fair' As Mr. Orr’s son, Welles, trudged slowly along to Hardly Fair, sitting on the bone-rattling seat of his cart pulled by a horse he’d borrowed (Clyde’s ‘Dale’), he speculated on what prices the goods he had on board would fetch. …

Mining the sky (for pleasure and profit)

Some of you will have seen the longer version of this tale on my blog but it seemed a good fit for this week's Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'junk'. Harley had become stupendously rich and then got bored, and that’s when he hit on the idea of creating a new planet, …

A Guide to Hell

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'guide'. Browsing on Ebay, I stumbled upon a book entitled ‘A Guide to Hell – The Alternative Facts’ by B. L. Zebub, with a description that read ‘Learn what the corrupt elites don’t want you to know about an alternative AfterLife’ …

Where have all the odd ones gone?

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'reserve'. When Alfie Centauri announced that he’d discovered where in the universe all the odd socks that disappeared in the weekly wash ended up, the responses from the public were culturally diverse (which of course was much to the satisfaction of …

An actual published story!

101 Words has just published a revised version of a piece of flash I wrote a while back and which some of you will have read before. Check it out if you have a mind to. https://101words.org/a-man-out-here/

Solitude has it’s own rewards

Keith turned his gas bottle on, lit the flame on his camp stove, poured a slurp of peanut oil into his wok and, after feeding a couple of pieces to Arfer his German Shepherd, added the diced meat he’d had marinating overnight. When it had browned, he added the sliced vegetables and gave the wok …